Thread: Sessions wanted to stay until the end of the week

2 hr 46 min ago Nov. 7, 2018

Sessions wanted to stay until the end of the week

From CNN’s Laura Jarrett and Kaitlan Collins



Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions wanted to try to stay until the end of the week, but White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told him no. Kelly was very firm it had to be today, according to administration officials.

A White House spokesman declined to comment on the subject.

The resignation letter submitted by Sessions today is not the old resignation letter that the former attorney general previously offered and President Trump rejected, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

There is no secret meaning to the fact that the letter is undated, the source says, adding, things were simply moving fast.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...out/index.html

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions wanted to try to stay until the end of the week, but White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told him no. Kelly was very firm it had to be today, according to administration officials.

Such disrespect to a man who has lived most of his life as a public servant. Jeff Sessions did not deserve to be booted to the curb in such a manner!

5 hr 24 min ago Nov. 7, 2018

Sessions was called by John Kelly, not the President, this morning

From CNN's Laura Jarrett




Attorney General Jeff Sessions received no phone call from President Trump, according to an administration official.

The call to Sessions came from Chief of Staff John Kelly this morning. There is no word yet on when Matthew Whitaker will be sworn in and whether special counsel Robert Mueller was told ahead of time.

Sessions was still in the building and was expected to leave by the end of the day, the official said.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...out/index.html

If someone is doing a bad job, and it is in the best interest of the country to fire them, then they need to be fired immediately, not a few hours after an election.

The timing tells me he was not fired in the best interest of the country, but he was used/abused then fired to satisfy Trump's personal agenda.

Disgusting that he was used again to try and win this election, and they think we have short memories and will forget by 2020, but not all of us will.

Very disturbing that everything has become all about winning an election, and no one seems to care what is accomplished after the win.

I read Jeff Sessions forced resignation letter... he is such a classy gentleman. And Trump sending someone else to demand his resignation... cowardly.

Would this have anything to do about the "supposed" Executive Order on the border?

Who drafts the EO? The AG?